Diana J. Arango
Sr. Gender-Based Violence and Development Specialist, World Bank Group
Diana J. Arango is the Sr. Gender-Based Violence and Development Specialist in the Gender Cross-Cutting Solutions Area at the World Bank Group. She has more than 10 years of experience working on development issues including gender-based violence, specifically within the context of humanitarian settings. Before joining the World Bank Group she was a Research Scientist at George Washington University's Global Women's Institute leading research on violence against women and girls in conflict settings. Prior to that she served as the Global Coordinator for the development and implementation of the Gender-Based Violence Information Management System (GBVIMS), an innovative inter-agency initiative that aids humanitarian workers in collecting timely data on GBV incidents that can then be used to inform programmatic work. She has an MSc from the London School of Economics in Anthropology and Development, and has on the ground experience in several countries, including Colombia, Haiti, Chad, Somalia, Uganda, and South Sudan.
Blogging on: Voices
- What can we do about gender-based violence and violence against children in infrastructure projects?
- Working to address gender-based violence in fragile situations
- Violence against older women is widespread but untallied
- Experts, communities convene to develop evidence-based approaches to prevent intimate partner violence in Honduras
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